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2024-07-09 18:49:10

David Megginson on Nostr: #TIL that George Santayana's quote > Those who cannot remember the past are condemned ...

#TIL that George Santayana's quote

> Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

occurred in a context of #racism and #colonialism in his book *The Life of Reason, or The Phases of Human Progress.*

He wrote that "when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual" and "This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience."

So let's stop quoting it (and variants with "#history" replacing "the past").
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